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Basecamp

Composite Score

9.0 /10

CX Score

9.3 /10

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Basecamp’s unique blend of tools is everything any team needs to stay on the same page about whatever they’re working on.

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Awards & Recognition

Basecamp won the following awards in the Project Management - Enterprise category

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2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Latest Award, 2024

11 Top Rated Capabilities

11 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2024

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2024

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

7 Top Rated Capabilities

8 Top Rated Features

2023

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2023

4 Top Rated Capabilities

6 Top Rated Features

2022

Basecamp Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

87 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

90 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+95 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Basecamp?

2% Negative

1% Neutral

97% Positive

Pros

Effective Service
Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 85

Collaboration

Document Management

Workflow Management

Resource Management

Dependency and Milestone Tracking

Planning and Scheduling

Budget Management

Mobile Access

Reporting

Hierarchical Task Management

Time & Expense Tracking

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 86

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Data Integration

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Customization

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support

Basecamp Reviews

Kristen P.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2023

Intuitive to Use for General Project Communication

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Basecamp from other similar products?

Basecamp is very easy to implement across teams. Our current Basecamp includes multiple departments—members from our technical support and front office teams, R&D, operations, and marketing groups—and our department utilizes Basecamp projects the most when it comes to planning our exhibits at conferences since multiple departments are involved. Basecamp required very little onboarding, and the tool provides excellent means of communication.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The Campfire feature provides an option for teams to discuss urgent items, the calendar can share milestones with Google Calendar, and it's easy to organize documents within folders. In fact, documents are much easier to organize and access within Basecamp than Google Drive. The mobile app provides an easy way for our representatives to access critical show documents such as electrical and labor orders without needing to carry a laptop with them. And, one can quickly ask for help by at-mentioning or pinging another team member no matter where they are.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The Gantt chart plug-in is clunky and dependencies are non-existent. So, if you are a project manager, there are only a few tools at your disposal for keeping projects on track. This application is obviously geared for project participants that do not have a project manager role or for those who want to manage projects without any complexity.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

When we established Basecamp, we realized that the communication was only as good as the notifications that each profile set individually. To create some foundations for communication, we elected a small team to propose a baseline notification setting list that we expected all project participants to have. This way, when we at-mention someone, we have at least a minimal expectation of how someone is notified. This was extremely helpful for our traveling representatives who, if they needed help right away, could rest assured that their at-mention would appear as a pop-up notification and in an email for increased visibility.

Pros

Trustworthy
Efficient Service
Effective Service
Helps Innovate

Kunal C.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Education
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

Loaded with features and simple tool

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Basecamp from other similar products?

A simple and basic approach to project management. Its very intuitive.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Simplicity of the product and easy to use app. All teams find it very intuitive.

What do you dislike most about this product?

No customisations options are available.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Definitely go for it if you want a simple and easy to use tool for project management.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

Claudia M.

Role: Operations
Industry: Communications
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

Fantastic product. Only misses some PM essentials.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Basecamp from other similar products?

It is very customable.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

That it has "activity feed".

What do you dislike most about this product?

It is hard for management.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Get used to it first.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

Basecamp Ratings

87 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

90 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+95 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Basecamp?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Collaboration Includes ability to view, share and direct work between co-workers in real or near real-time.

Document Management Includes features such as check-in/check-out and versioning controls on documents and artifacts.

Workflow Management Includes ability to support flexible and comprehensive workflow-based capabilities.

Resource Management Includes resource allocation, expense tracking, and resource planning.

Dependency and Milestone Tracking Ability to define project development stages and task dependencies while setting milestones to mark specific points in a project

Planning and Scheduling Includes milestones, tasks and resource assignments (can also include WBS and CPM).

Budget Management Includes financial planning, cost management, and payroll budgeting.

Mobile Access The solution can be easily accessed by employees through a dedicated native application or HTML5 access.

Reporting Straightforward data storage with ability to create any reports easily. Dashboards for any role with ability to easily build and modify.

Hierarchical Task Management Ability to create both templates and unique projects and support tasks that can be divided into sub-tasks and delegated

Time & Expense Tracking Ability to track time for planning and estimating

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Basecamp Reviews

Kristen P.

Intuitive to Use for General Project Communication

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Kunal C.

Loaded with features and simple tool

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Claudia M.

Fantastic product. Only misses some PM essentials.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Collaboration

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Budget Management

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Time & Expense Tracking

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